Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Senior Hamas officials have said an open-ended agreement has been sealed with Israel to end seven weeks of fighting in Gaza, describing the ceasefire deal as a "victory for the resistance".
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said on Tuesday that "an agreement has been reached between the two sides and we are awaiting the announcement from Cairo to determine the zero hour for implementation".
Hamas's exiled deputy leader, Moussa Abu Marzouk, said on social media that the agreement brokered in indirect talks in Cairo was a "victory for the resistance".
However Mark Regev, the Israeli prime minister's chief spokesmanm, said that nothing had been signed and that the reports were "just reports".
The leader of Palestinian delegation to the ceasefire talks, Azzam al-Ahmad, told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, would announce the details in the coming hours.
Ahmad said the deal was reached following 48 hours of extensive talks with officials in Doha, Cairo, Gaza and Ramallah.
Palestinian health officials say 2,138 people, most of them civilians, including more than 490 children, have been killed in Gaza since July 8, when Israel launched an offensive with the declared aim of ending the rocket salvoes.
Thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged in the conflict, while the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said 540,000 people had been displaced by the violence.
*Agencies